Joint Public issues Team

Current Issues

Slavery and trafficking

Assisted Dying

Trident

Reflection and Discussion

What's in a name?

Church and Society

Church in Society

Social Responsibility

Public Issues

= Social Justice

Justice

If you cut out all the Bible references to justice
you would have a "holey" Bible
- rather than a Holy Bible

Joint Public Issues Team

Baptist Union

Methodist Church

United Reformed Church

Joint Public Issues Team - Aim

To enable the three churches to work together in living out the gospel of Christ in the Church and in society. To promote equality and justice by influencing those in power and by energising and affirming local congregations

If (in 1787) you had stood on a street corner in London and insisted that slavery was morally wrong, nine out of ten listeners would have laughed you off as a crackpot …. Within a few short years .… there was an abolition committee in every major city and town, and 300,000 people were refusing to eat slave grown sugar